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A star is a great ball of hydrogen that can maintain a fission-reaction and emit heat and light. Our sun is such a star, and other stars are extremely far away.
What is often referred to as a "shooting star" is not a star, but a small stone or just a particle of dust entering the earth's atmosphere and burning up. This is what creates the streak of light on the sky. It starts burning because of the great friction it meets when it travels fast through the atmosphere. The correct name for this phenomena is a meteor.
A meteoroid is the name of a stone that floats freely in space (it can become a meteor if it is attracted by the earths gravity), while a meteorite is the name of a meteor that has reached the earth's surface without burning up completely.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoBecause a "shooting star" is really just a meteor that passes by earth. These meteors are practically the only meteors that you can see with the naked eye.
Also, because it is not a star, but a small lump of space debris.
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∙ 9y agoA shooting star is just another name for a meteor (a chunk of space rock) burning up as it travels through the Earths atmosphere. They are not actually stars shooting across the sky, even though it might look that way. A Star is very large like the sun, and in general do not move as a meteor will, at least not in a way that you could observe.
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∙ 12y agowhile moving through space a rock is called a meteoroid
when it is burning up in the atmosphere it is called a meteor
when/if it lands on earth it is called a meteorite
The term shooting star applies to the meteor burning visibly in our atmosphere.
the size of these objects can be anywhere from half a grain of sand to many miles across.
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∙ 10y agobecause the shooting star of the shooting star in the galaxy is parr and the field goal of the meteor has to give a striaght parabala and right axis toward the sun.
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∙ 14y agoMeteors can also be called shooting stars
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∙ 14y agometeors are often called shooting stars
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∙ 11y agoShooting stars
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∙ 11y agoits mostly mistaken for a shooting star
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It is bright like a shooting star
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What is the description of a meteor?
A visible meteor is a meteor that can be seen by the naked-eye
What is the syllable for meteorite?
The correct spelling is meteorite (a meteor that reaches the ground).
What causes a meteor show?
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Do meteor showers occur when the earth passes through the dust of a comet's tail?
Yes. At least, it seems there is often such a relationship.
What is an incorrect name for meteor?
a usually mistaken name for meteor is a shooting star
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